The Internet Society's 25th anniversary timeline & history of the Internet in Asia and the Pacific 1992-2017
When countries first had Asia-Pacific Internet Global Internet connection milestones Society milestones (based on establishment milestones date of first commercial Internet service provider)
1st IETF meeting in San Diego, USA (1986) Australia (1989) World Wide Web opened to the public (1991) New Zealand (1989) Linux source code released (1991)
Internet Society Established 1992 INET '92 Kobe in Japan Hong Kong Japan Malaysia
APNIC, the regional Internet address registry National Center for Supercomputing for the Asia-Pacific, 1993 Applications released Mosaic Web Browser established
Bangladesh
Indonesia st Republic of Korea 1994 1 Internet Society Chapter Philippines founded in Japan Singapore
Brunei Darussalam Nepal Windows 95 launched China Pakistan Fiji Sri Lanka 1995 India Taiwan Thailand Yahoo! launched
1st Asia Pacific Regional Maldives Nokia 9000 Communicator released, the Internet Conference on 1st mobile phone with Internet capabilities Mongolia Operational Technologies 1996 Viet Nam (APRICOT) in Singapore Hotmail and Rocketmail launched
Cambodia Lao PDR 1997 Solomon Islands
Google launched
Nauru Asia Pacific Top Level Samoa 1998 ICANN established Domain Name Association (APTLD) established IPv6 specification released by IETF
Bhutan Papua New Guinea 1st Blackberry 1999 device launched Alibaba established
1st IETF meeting in the Asia-Pacific Myanmar SEA-ME-WE3 region in Adelaide, Australia Tuvalu submarine cable 2000 completed Trek 2000 International in Singapore created the ThumbDrive
Wikipedia launched Southern Cross Cable linking the Pacific to US completed 2001 1st commercial 3G launched in Japan
Internet Society successfully bids Friendster for .ORG registry 2002 launched
Afghanistan Timor-Leste
st 1 Phase of WSIS 1st Meeting of the South Asian 2003 Network Operators Group (SANOG) in Kathmandu, Nepal MySpace launched
Skype launched
Facebook launched 2004 Orkut launched
1 billion Internet users 1st Meeting of the Pacific Network Nokia E series (with embedded keyboard) Operators Group (PacNOG) in Nadi, Fiji launched 2005 YouTube launched Winner of Jonathan B. Postel Service Award - Jun Murai 2nd Phase of WSIS
Twitter launched 2006 1st Global IGF
FlipKart, leading e-commerce website 2007 iPhone launched in India, launched
st Internet Society established 1 commercial Android the Asia-Pacific Bureau 2008 device, TMobile G1, launched
Creation of internationalized domain names for country code top-level (ccTLDs) approved by ICANN
st 1 Regional INET in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 2009 WhatsApp launched
1st commercial 4G/LTE deployed in Stockholm and Oslo
Wireless for Communities Programme Winner of Jonathan B. Postel launched in Chanderi, India Service Award - Jianping Wu
Kakao Talk, Korean messaging app, 2010 iPad launched launched
1st Asia-Pacific IGF in Hong Kong 2 billion Internet users
LINE, Japanese messaging Winner of Jonathan B. Postel app, launched Service Award - Kilnam Chon 2011 WeChat, Chinese Internet Society Singapore messaging app, launched entity established
Grab, taxi booking app in South-East Asia, launched 1st Asia Internet Symposium (AIS) Lazada, leading in Manila, Philippines ecommerce website in 2012 South-East Asia, launched 2012 Internet Hall of Fame Inductees (Asia) Tan Tin Wee, Singapore 1st billion Internet users in the Asia-Pacific Kilnam Chon, Republic of Korea Toru Takahashi, Japan
2013 Internet Hall of Fame Inductees (Asia) Gihan Dias, Sri Lanka China created Tianhe-2 a 33.86 Haruhisa Ishida, Japan petaflop computer 2013 Jun Murai, Japan Kanchana Kanchanasut, Thailand Qiheng Hu, China
Winner of Jonathan B. Postel Service Award - Mahabir Pun 2014 Internet Hall of Fame Inductees (Asia) Abhaya Induruwa, Sri Lanka 1st Asia-Pacific Regional Policy Survey Hualin Qian, China 2014 Mahabir Pun, Nepal Masaki Hirabaru, Japan 3 billion Internet users Srinivasan Ramani, India
Winner of Jonathan B. Postel 1st Regional Internet & Development Service Award - Kanchana Kanchanasut 2016 Dialogue (RIDD) in Bangkok, Thailand
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